In one context that statement might sound true, yet is it an accurate assessment across the board while discussing everyone involved in this event called "Life"?
If this life were only about acquired wealth and its "Potential" to influence I might tend to agree, yet I'm of the strong opinion there's something more.
Influence can mean a multitude of different things to just as many different people as does the understanding of a cause and effect.
I once heard the statement, "You can place a million dollars in the hands of 100 different people, yet it's the person that understands value that will make anything more out of it than what it already is".
Does simply leaving wealth (prosperity) or property behind for the benefit of another guarantee that it will maintain its intended purpose?
I'm of the opinion that everything in this world has a voice. I'm equally of the opinion everything that does speak can only truly be heard if the one listening accepts the reasoning behind what's is being said.
Some have taken hold of an even greater suggestion in that life "Is all about Family" yet once again is that all there is to this life?
I suppose it would depend upon how one defines family.
The word of God attempts to express for our benefit the value of being right (righteous). In terms of a family and assuming God is in possession of the ONLY wisdom that is also true and at all times it is his children that will then prove Him to be righteous through obedience.
Obedience is not a bad word despite mans efforts to make it as such. We all obey one opinion over another at any given moment of our lives yet each life bears its own fruit.
It's one thing to tell your earthly father that you love him only then to do something totally contrary to his wishes for you. The heavenly Father however tells us and holds the expectation for something different in terms of our expression of Love towards Him.
John 14:15-17
If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him.
NIV
John 14:23-24
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
NIV
The corrupted mind of humanity has become addicted to being right in all matters that pertain to life and said "Godliness". That is to suggest that man looks to stay in control of his own summation (comfort) concerning all things created. The likes of which he (man) did NOT create.
I can say with some degree of regret there have been a few personalities in my life that I've had to "Choose" to relate to yet only because of the significance of the blood bond we shared. Even further admitting on more than one occasion I thought of asking for a DNA swab test.
For some history plays its own role as the center piece while attempting to identify with the exactness as to "Who" their family members are.
It's easy to simply say "Our children are our future", yet what does that mean? Our we suggesting such a future that holds said benefit(s) doesn't require defining as if the reason(s) why? I'm of the opinion a "Gambler" is considered as such, because they have zero respect for the cost placed at risk.
Does that future include only you and yours as if active participant(s)? How will your life that is lived fit the larger picture of truth that over shadows all humanity as ordained by its creator?
In terms of an active participant in the future, in what capacity will your memories serve? That is to suggest more than a picture that stirs fond memories which eventually finds itself gathering dust in the bottom of a cardboard box?
Be truthful as we've all seen them as that box that eventually migrates to that dark corner in the attack or basement once it's journeyed two generations beyond your own existence?
Lets rewind the video of humanity a few centuries now and take a look at a matter the Lord God considers as wickedness.
If everything has a beginning point in time, then how might the first recorded murder play out with respect to future generations which also includes you today?
That's not even to mention Adam and Eve's neglect of how their decisions would affect future generations to come, but could this neglect be the essence and evidence of what the Lord considers as wickedness (evil) at play?
Most know the infamous question, "Am I my brothers keeper"?
How does the thought of somehow being the "keeper" of ones brother then play out in terms of maintaining the respected personality that's somehow gets kept "Alive" at heart while finding its rightful place in the future? That is to suggest the persons potential to influence others?
Many try to relate to such a person as if only considering their own immediate relationship with that individual personality. What might Cain have also heard as God suggested if he could have found himself able to hear?
I often wonder if a portion of God's wisdom in the naming of Able was intended to point us towards him?
Meaning Able was able to hear God in specific terms in so much that he did more than listen in that he also performed well enough his actions pleased God.
Is the suggestion to "Listen" just some "Empty" or lofty metaphor that's useless or is there a deeper reality with regards to not only finding ourselves able to "Hear", but also how that same hearing was intended to affect what takes place in the future to come?
Gen 4:10
The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
NIV
As food for thought, was it the act of murder which proved the identity of Cain or was it the sinful nature within him which caused him to act?
What is a mans nature? Could it prove to be the father of his likeness having been evidenced by way of all his outward expression whether in word or deed?
Both Cain and Able were born of one and the same corruptible seed having come into this world by way of the same loins and womb enough that they can be called "Brothers". Looking at the consideration from that perspective expresses one thing, but how does one reconcile later as the Apostle Paul writes that Cain belonged to the evil one?
There was no other excuse as the likes of having a separate parent or step parent to blame in an attempt to excuse himself for what he carried out against his brother. Cain simply identified himself through words when he then ask in all truth, "Am I my bothers keeper"?
The "sharp" point the Apostle Paul later defines as not only "Who" Cain was but also how he (cain) acknowledged "Who" he belonged to.
1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain , who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother.
And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.
NIV
Don't hate what was intended to be "Good" instead hate what is considered to be evil even if that means being critical of yourself when you see that which is considered to be evil trying to surface in YOU.
The following seems harsh, yet I think it a sign of great love even more so now on the other side of the proof of such a claim having believed that God gave of himself "His Son" for our sins.
Simply being told in advance of a coming wrath is not enough. Believing that the wrath of God is coming is what will lead you to the need of a savior.
What is the wrath of God coming to destroy after this season f mercy expires?
Said "Children of Wrath" which despise the instruction of the Lord.
Ps 50:16-23
But to the wicked, God says:
"What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers. You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son. These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
"Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue: He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God."
NIV
Both brothers were intended to participate at a time in the future, but only as what they did or didn't do gets weighed on the scales of truth. As it is today we can't weigh their thoughts, yet we can weigh their actions in terms of how we respond. Only then is one able to see who their teacher (father) is.
Come to know who the father of all Goodness is and be reconciled unto Him. Come without holding a higher regard for the loins or womb through which you were brought into this world.
Eph 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
NIV
Humility that is true is not simply something else for you to master. Instead it was intended to master you.
1 Peter 1:3-9
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade — kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire — may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
NIV
The following seems harsh, yet I think it a sign of great love even more so now on the other side of the proof of such a claim having believed that God gave of himself "His Son" for our sins.
Simply being told in advance of a coming wrath is not enough. Believing that the wrath of God is coming is what will lead you to the need of a savior.
What is the wrath of God coming to destroy after this season f mercy expires?
Said "Children of Wrath" which despise the instruction of the Lord.
Ps 50:16-23
But to the wicked, God says:
"What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers. You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son. These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
"Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue: He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God."
NIV
Both brothers were intended to participate at a time in the future, but only as what they did or didn't do gets weighed on the scales of truth. As it is today we can't weigh their thoughts, yet we can weigh their actions in terms of how we respond. Only then is one able to see who their teacher (father) is.
Come to know who the father of all Goodness is and be reconciled unto Him. Come without holding a higher regard for the loins or womb through which you were brought into this world.
Eph 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
NIV
Humility that is true is not simply something else for you to master. Instead it was intended to master you.
1 Peter 1:3-9
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade — kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire — may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
NIV
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